It sounds Slavonic, about the dragon being the symbol for (something) … but I am not sure yet whether it is a natural language or a conlang.
It’s Slavic, I can’t identify it but I can understand. The speaker sounds like he’s not fluent and his accent sounds Polish. So I guess it’s Interslavic.
Could it be Slovio?
Slavic, like everyone says, probably Eastern. Not modern Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, but possibly a medieval or dialectal variety of one of them. It has archaic Eastern Slavic features, like “суть были”. Or maybe it’s Rusyn or a variety of Slovak or Polish. It’s weird, because it sounds like a book of history or a travelogue, but I cannot think of any well-known book of this kind that talks about China, like this recording does, but I’m not a big expert on Old Russian literature. It could be something like Afanasi Nikitin’s famous travel book, for example, but as far as I know, he traveled to Arab countries, Iran, and India, and not to China. So the precise answer remains a mystery.
Interesting. Overall, it gives me a West Slavic vibe (Polish-sounding /tʃa’suv/ for gen.pl.(?) of “time”), but /doʃtʃ/ for “rain” seems to point at East or South Slavic. Bulgarian/Macedonian area is excluded since there are noun cases. Hard /g/ seems to exclude Belarusian and Ukrainian areas.
Noun /vladar/ “ruler” seems to point to the Balkans. I’d look at Serbo-Slovene dialect continuum.
I’m a native Polish speaker, so I was able to understand everything, but the language sounded… artificial to me, especially from the way how meticulously the speaker spoke it. I’d say Interslavic
After listening to this again, I also heard the words ‘kitay(u)’ (China) and ‘imperator(a)’ (emperor). So what we now need is an Interslavic (or Slovio?) dictionary in order to find out if those two are a match …
‘China’, ’emperor’, ‘dragon’ and ‘symbol’ are all found in the form I hear them in the Interslavic online translator. That doesn’t mean too much but I am also guessing Interslavic.
The language is Interslavic (Меджусловјански / Medžuslovjanski), an international auxiliary language designed to be used by speakers of different Slavic languages to communicate with one another.
It sounds Slavonic, about the dragon being the symbol for (something) … but I am not sure yet whether it is a natural language or a conlang.
It’s Slavic, I can’t identify it but I can understand. The speaker sounds like he’s not fluent and his accent sounds Polish. So I guess it’s Interslavic.
Could it be Slovio?
Slavic, like everyone says, probably Eastern. Not modern Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, but possibly a medieval or dialectal variety of one of them. It has archaic Eastern Slavic features, like “суть были”. Or maybe it’s Rusyn or a variety of Slovak or Polish. It’s weird, because it sounds like a book of history or a travelogue, but I cannot think of any well-known book of this kind that talks about China, like this recording does, but I’m not a big expert on Old Russian literature. It could be something like Afanasi Nikitin’s famous travel book, for example, but as far as I know, he traveled to Arab countries, Iran, and India, and not to China. So the precise answer remains a mystery.
Interesting. Overall, it gives me a West Slavic vibe (Polish-sounding /tʃa’suv/ for gen.pl.(?) of “time”), but /doʃtʃ/ for “rain” seems to point at East or South Slavic. Bulgarian/Macedonian area is excluded since there are noun cases. Hard /g/ seems to exclude Belarusian and Ukrainian areas.
Noun /vladar/ “ruler” seems to point to the Balkans. I’d look at Serbo-Slovene dialect continuum.
I’m a native Polish speaker, so I was able to understand everything, but the language sounded… artificial to me, especially from the way how meticulously the speaker spoke it. I’d say Interslavic
After listening to this again, I also heard the words ‘kitay(u)’ (China) and ‘imperator(a)’ (emperor). So what we now need is an Interslavic (or Slovio?) dictionary in order to find out if those two are a match …
‘China’, ’emperor’, ‘dragon’ and ‘symbol’ are all found in the form I hear them in the Interslavic online translator. That doesn’t mean too much but I am also guessing Interslavic.
The language is Interslavic (Меджусловјански / Medžuslovjanski), an international auxiliary language designed to be used by speakers of different Slavic languages to communicate with one another.
The recording comes from YouTube